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Michael Francis "Mick" Foley, Sr. is a American semi-retired professional wrestler, author, comedian, actor, voice actor and former color... commentator. He has worked for many wrestling promotions, including WWE, WCW, ECW and TNA. He is often referred to as "The Hardcore Legend", a nickname he shares with Terry Funk. He is currently signed to WWE, serving several backstage roles. Throughout his wrestling career, Foley has wrestled both under his real name and under various personas . He is a four-time World Champion . He is an 11-time Tag Team Champion . He was also the first WWF Hardcore Champion, and held the TNA Legends Championship once. Following his retirement from wrestling full-time, Foley appeared occasionally with WWE as a special guest referee and later as a color commentator for the SmackDown brand. Upon his departure from WWE in 2008, he signed with TNA, where he was a storyline stock holder of the company.
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Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist. Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and... a therapist. Bell's parents were Shirley and Alan P. Bell, Professor Emeritus of Indiana University, in Bloomington, and a former Kinsey researcher. His father is of Scottish descent, and his mother is Jewish . Bell told The Jewish Journal, "I identify myself as being Jewish". Bell began taking violin lessons at the age of four after his mother discovered that her son had taken rubber bands from around the house and stretched them across the handles of his dresser drawer to pluck out music he had heard her play on the piano. His parents got a scaled-to-size violin for their then five-year-old son and started giving him lessons. A bright student, Bell took to the instrument but lived an otherwise normal midwest Indiana life playing video games and excelling at sports, namely tennis and bowling, even placing in a national tennis tournament at the age of ten.
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Scott Bruce Rolen is a Major League Baseball third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. He is an eight-time Gold Glove winner and seven-time All-Star.... Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2nd round of the 1993 amateur draft, Rolen reached the majors in 1996. In the next season, he was named National League Rookie of the Year, becoming the first Phillie since Dick Allen in 1964 to win the award. In 1998 he won his first of eight Gold Glove awards. Only Hall of Famers Brooks Robinson and Mike Schmidt have more at third base. Rolen was supposed to be one of the key pieces in the Phillies revival. However, claiming that management was not trying hard enough to win, Rolen demanded a trade. On July 29, 2002, Philadelphia traded Rolen and Doug Nickle to the St. Louis Cardinals for Plácido Polanco, Mike Timlin, and Bud Smith. Later that year, he received an eight-year deal worth $90 million. Rolen's 2004 season was arguably one of his best to that point. For much of the season, he led the National League in RBIs, often ranked among the league leaders in most offensive statistics, and had the highest vote total of any player for the All-Star Game.
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Sean Gregory May is an American professional basketball player currently playing for Sutor Basket Montegranaro in Italy. He was born in Chicago,... Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. He was a three-time all-state selection at Bloomington High School North, and was at one time a teammate of current NBA player Jared Jeffries. May was named to the 2002 McDonald's High School All-American team. He played in the 2002 McDonald's game with Raymond Felton and Rashad McCants, who would later team with May to win an NCAA Championship. When the heavily-recruited May chose to attend North Carolina, it was a major surprise to most basketball recruiting observers; it had been thought that he would stay in his hometown and play for the Indiana University Hoosiers. He had strong family connections to IU; his father Scott was a forward on the school's undefeated 1975–76 NCAA championship team and won the Naismith Award the same year, and his brother Scott Jr. played for the Indiana basketball team that made the NCAA title game in 2002. At North Carolina, May made his mark as the starting center for the Tar Heels basketball team from 2003 to 2005.
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Arija Allison Bareikis is an American actress. She starred alongside Rob Schneider as Kate in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and played LAPD police... officer Chickie Brown, in the police drama series Southland, for its first three seasons. Bareikis was born in Bloomington, Indiana. Her surname is of Lithuanian origin. She is a 1988 graduate of Stanford University. Her father is a professor of Germanic literature at Indiana University.
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David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. Roth is one of few vocalists with a larger... than 4 octave range in full voice . Roth is best known as the original and current lead singer of the Southern California-based hard rock outfit Van Halen. After departing Van Halen in 1985 Roth first enjoyed a successful career as a solo artist, which originated while still a member of that band and yielded several RIAA-certified Gold and Platinum records. After more than two decades apart, Roth rejoined Van Halen in 2006 for a North American tour that became the most successful in the band's history and one of the highest grossing of that year. Roth has remained the lead singer of Van Halen since his 2006 return and has recently completed recording new material with the band for their first album together since 1984. Roth was born on October 10, 1954, in Bloomington, Indiana. He is the son of ophthalmologist Nathan Roth and Sibyl Roth and the brother of Allison and Lisa Roth. Dr. Nathan Roth was a renowned eye surgeon, who made millions via his practice and in real estate. Dr.
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Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist. Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and... a therapist. Bell's parents were Shirley and Alan P. Bell, Professor Emeritus of Indiana University, in Bloomington, and a former Kinsey researcher. His father is of Scottish descent, and his mother is Jewish . Bell told The Jewish Journal, "I identify myself as being Jewish". Bell began taking violin lessons at the age of four after his mother discovered that her son had taken rubber bands from around the house and stretched them across the handles of his dresser drawer to pluck out music he had heard her play on the piano. His parents got a scaled-to-size violin for their then five-year-old son and started giving him lessons. A bright student, Bell took to the instrument but lived an otherwise normal midwest Indiana life playing video games and excelling at sports, namely tennis and bowling, even placing in a national tennis tournament at the age of ten.
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John Darnielle is an American musician, best known as the primary member of the American band The Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer,... composer, guitarist, and vocalist. Born in Bloomington, Indiana, at a young age Darnielle moved and grew up in and around San Luis Obispo, California. He has also lived in Grinnell, Iowa; Tallahassee, Florida; Colo, Iowa; Ames, Iowa; Chicago, Illinois; Portland, Oregon; Milpitas, CA and Denton, Texas. He currently resides in Durham, North Carolina with his wife Lalitree Darnielle, a photographer who was featured playing the banjo in the band's 1998 EP New Asian Cinema, and son Roman. Darnielle grew up in Central California with an abusive stepfather by the name of Mike Noonan and after high school, he went to work as a psychiatric nurse at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California. For a couple of years, he lived on the Metropolitan State grounds, writing songs and playing his guitar when he wasn't working. During this time he began recording some of his songs onto cassette tapes using a Panasonic boombox.
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Denny Scott Miller is an American actor, perhaps best known for his regular role as Duke Shannon on Wagon Train and his guest-starring roles on... Gilligan's Island and as Tarzan in the late 1950s. Miller was a basketball star at UCLA, where his father was a physical education instructor. In his senior year, while working as a furniture mover to pay for school, he was discovered on Sunset Boulevard by a Hollywood agent who signed him with MGM. His screen test was directed by George Cukor. He became the first blond Tarzan in Tarzan, the Ape Man , a cheapie/quickie which lifted most of its footage from earlier Johnny Weissmuller movies. He was recommended by someone else considered for the role, William Smith. MGM had him under contract for 20 months; in that time, he worked eight weeks as Tarzan. After that, he did guest spots on a number of television series, such as Northwest Passage, a 1958-1959 adventure program on NBC co-starring Keith Larsen and Buddy Ebsen and on NBC's western series, Overland Trail, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure, and Laramie, co-starring John Smith and Robert Fuller.
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Arija Allison Bareikis is an American actress. She starred alongside Rob Schneider as Kate in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and played LAPD police... officer Chickie Brown, in the police drama series Southland, for its first three seasons. Bareikis was born in Bloomington, Indiana. Her surname is of Lithuanian origin. She is a 1988 graduate of Stanford University. Her father is a professor of Germanic literature at Indiana University.
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David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. Roth is one of few vocalists with a larger... than 4 octave range in full voice . Roth is best known as the original and current lead singer of the Southern California-based hard rock outfit Van Halen. After departing Van Halen in 1985 Roth first enjoyed a successful career as a solo artist, which originated while still a member of that band and yielded several RIAA-certified Gold and Platinum records. After more than two decades apart, Roth rejoined Van Halen in 2006 for a North American tour that became the most successful in the band's history and one of the highest grossing of that year. Roth has remained the lead singer of Van Halen since his 2006 return and has recently completed recording new material with the band for their first album together since 1984. Roth was born on October 10, 1954, in Bloomington, Indiana. He is the son of ophthalmologist Nathan Roth and Sibyl Roth and the brother of Allison and Lisa Roth. Dr. Nathan Roth was a renowned eye surgeon, who made millions via his practice and in real estate. Dr.
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Robert Lee Helms , better known as Bobby Helms, was an American country music singer who enjoyed his peak success in 1957 with his hit, "Jingle Bell... Rock". He was mostly known for the Christmas song. His other hits include "Fraulein" and "My Special Angel". Born in Bloomington, Indiana into a musical family, Helms began performing as a duo with his brother, Freddie, before going on to a successful solo career in country music. In 1956, Helms made his way to Nashville, Tennessee, where he signed a recording contract with Decca Records. The following year was filled with astonishing successes. Helms' first single in 1957 titled "Fraulein" went to No. 1 on the country music chart and made it into the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Later that same year he released "My Special Angel", which also hit No. 1 on the country charts and entered the Top 10 on Billboard's pop music chart, peaking at No. 7. Released just a few days before Christmas 1957, his song "Jingle Bell Rock" was a big hit.
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